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News in Detail

Envision Team Leaders Needed

This spring Grace Baptist Mission launched a new programme of short term mission opportunities called Envision. A key part of this programme is Envision Teams, a gap year programme for young people serving together in a team for ten weeks or more. Young people are plunged into another culture in the developing world, giving them a rich cross-cultural experience, so that they get to see world mission in the raw. As well as serving the churches where they are, they will also have their own programme of discipleship as a team so that they grow spiritually during their time away.

Our first team is to Arequipa, Peru, and runs from 27th January to 11th April 2011. To make it happen we urgently need team leaders. We are looking for two people (one male, one female) who are both committed Christians with the following qualities:

• a passion for world mission and a desire to see the kingdom of God spread to all nations
• experience of working with young people and a desire to disciple them
• experience of teaching the Bible to others in a small group context
• the gifts needed to organise and manage a team
• the ability to speak Spanish would be an advantage, though not essential for both team leaders
• Someone who agrees with GBM’s doctrinal basis, and preferably who belongs to a church that is in fellowship with GBM.

Please download our briefing document here or contact Jim Sayers, Envision Coordinator, at GBM Mission Centre.

 

Summer Time is here again

We are looking forward to a busy summer of GBM camps, and bookings are coming in fast.

Our GBM Family Camp runs from Friday 30th July to Friday 6th August, at Athelington Hall Farm. Peter Havers has installed new elite timber lodges on site and only one two-bed elite lodge remains unbooked. All standard lodges are booked, but there is still plenty of room for tents or your own caravan if you prefer. We look forward to ministry from Hugh Collier, as well as hearing from the missionaries, which include Sukesh and Jenny Pabari, Andrew Gullett, and Sarah Clay.

Roothill Youth Camp runs from Saturday 21st August to Monday 30th August. It is steadily filling up, so book now to avoid disappointment. Stuart Harding from Grace Baptist Church, Southport is our main speaker, and John Heron, pastor of Sharnbrook Evangelical Church in Bedfordshire will be speaking over the final bank holiday weekend. A new addition to the programme this year are small group discussion Bible studies, and we hope to have Sarah Clay, Chris Hawthorne and others with us in the evenings.

Booking forms for both can be downloaded from the events section of our Resources page here.

 

15 Years of Christian Compassion Ministries

On May 21st Christian Compassion Ministries, the main benevolent ministry of Cubao Reformed Baptist Church (CRBC) in the Philippines celebrated its 15th Anniversary with a special gathering at a near-by public school. About 300 parents and children gathered from the poor communities in the area of Cubao to join in this celebration and thanksgiving to God for 15 years of CCM. These families are among those being helped by CCM’s Educational Assistance Program (EAP).

The afternoon consisted of presentations by some of the young people in the program as well as some of the CCM children from the six residential homes for children needing shelter. The boys from the Boys’ Home performed a dance where they beat on coconut shells strapped to their bodies. It was a joyous occasion as we gave thanks to God. Pastor Mon Macapagal brought a message from God’s Word while Pastor Brian Ellis gave a power-point presentation of the history of CCM over the fifteen years of its existence.

One of the high-lights of the afternoon was the introduction of a number of young people who have graduated from college over the last two or three years through the assistance rendered to them by the EAP. One of them Aldreen Quirit came 10th in the National Board Exam for Electronics and Communications Engineering. Well over 2,000 took the exam. Aldreen spoke to encourage those who are still studying.

Another one of the EAP graduates was Happy Balairos who graduated as a Social Worker. She is the niece of Mailyn Balairos our Head Housemother in the Girls’ Homes. Happy is now employed by CCM as a Social Worker in the EAP and is a member of CRBC.

As in all Filipino gatherings there was food for everyone at the end of the afternoon. It was a joyous occasion and we look back with gratitude to the Lord for his many mercies and grace to us. Please pray that these young people whom we help will not only receive a secular education but above all will come to know and love the Lord Jesus Christ.

Brian Ellis